Latin

[Lat·in]

Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome

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Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.

Noun
any dialect of the language of ancient Rome

Noun
a person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin

Noun
an inhabitant of ancient Latium

Adjective S.
having or resembling the psychology or temper characteristic of people of Latin America; "very Latin in temperament"; "a Latin disdain"; "his hot Latin blood"

Adjective
of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language; "Latin verb conjugations"

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Adjective
of or relating to the ancient region of Latium; "Latin towns"

Adjective
relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance languages"

Adjective
relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages; "Latin America"

a.
Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.

a.
Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom.

n.
A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.

n.
The language of the ancient Romans.

n.
An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin.

n.
A member of the Roman Catholic Church.

v. t.
To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin.

Latin

Lat"in , a. [F., fr. L. Latinus belonging to Latium, Latin, fr. Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. Ladin, Lateen sail, under Lateen.] 1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language. 2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom. Latin Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Western or Roman Catholic Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church. -- Latin cross. See Illust. 1 of Cross. -- Latin races, a designation sometimes loosely given to certain nations, esp. the French, Spanish, and Italians, who speak languages principally derived from Latin. Latin Union, an association of states, originally comprising France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy, which, in 1865, entered into a monetary agreement, providing for an identity in the weight and fineness of the gold and silver coins of those countries, and for the amounts of each kind of coinage by each. Greece, Servia, Roumania, and Spain subsequently joined the Union.

Latin

Lat"in, n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman. 2. The language of the ancient Romans. 3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. [Obs.] Ascham. 4. (Eccl.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church. (Dog Latin, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin; as, the log Latin of schoolboys. -- Late Latin, Low Latin, terms used indifferently to designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other languages into a Latin form made after the Latin had become a dead language for the people. -- Law Latin, that kind of late, or low, Latin, used in statutes and legal instruments; -- often barbarous.

Latin

Lat"in, v. t. To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin. [Obs.] Fuller.

Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.

A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.

To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin.

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Usage Examples

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.

One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.

Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.

Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.